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    Too subtle.
     
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    3rd Squadron Hells Angels IMG_2363.jpeg
     
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    And he said, “that looks mean as Hell”
     
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    Its been a day dream of mine since i was a teen that if i was in the war in Britain i would've become an aircraft painter...A budding artist in my early years i would've asked each squadron what they wanted...In the day dream some squadrons would want their own picture different from others...In other squadrons they would want a "motif" - So a different shark mouth for each aircraft, able to identify which aircraft simply from the shark "face" on the aircraft (thats right not just the teeth and eye) - Other squadrons wanting a sexy picture of their belle back home...Give me a picture of them and a pose they wanted and each aircraft had a babe adorned on their engine cowling. Other wanting a different cartoon character making a "looney tunes" squadron...
    And then i would go see the bomber boys...I think i would make a little history (my art work on historical photos) And hopefully get some of that "GI" money to help my struggling family (part of the day dream).
     
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    Loved NASM! Could have starved to death in there quite happily.
     
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    Battle of Berlin
     

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    Were they B24 bombers and was that like the firebombing like in Dresden where the whole town went up in flames and most of the people with it?
     
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    Night bombing, British Lancasters…Many German cities received ‘the treatment’…
     
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    I've read in passing that the death count at Dresden has been lowered quite a bit. Not in my interest area, so no reference.
     
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    Two to go……….. IMG_2444.jpeg
     
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    "Let's drive around the P-40, guys."
     
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    I guess my fantasy would be you painting the 19th "Rising Sun" on my P47.
     
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    One more and you become a 4th time Ace…
     
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    Back in the '70s there was a British tv news/current affair magazine programme called Nationwide that ran at teatime Monday-Friday, before the concept of the six o'clock news began.
    Anyway they did a feature on a guy who had built a life-sized Typhoon cockpit in his garage, and spent his spare time sitting in it appropriately dressed while watching real footage of 'rhubarbs' across occupied Europe projected on a screen in front of him and reliving the moment. He even had a handlebar moustache a la Jimmy Edwards.
    If there's one thing Britain excels at, it's producing eccentrics.
    BFI Screenonline: Whack-O! (1956-60, 1971-72)
     
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    Apollo 14: A View from Antares​
    Image Credit: Edgar Mitchell, Apollo 14, NASA; Mosaic - Eric M. Jones​


    Explanation: Apollo 14's Lunar Module Antares landed on the Moon on February 5, 1971. Toward the end of the stay astronaut Ed Mitchell snapped a series of photos of the lunar surface while looking out a window, assembled into this detailed mosaic by Apollo Lunar Surface Journal editor Eric Jones. The view looks across the Fra Mauro highlands to the northwest of the landing site after the Apollo 14 astronauts had completed their second and final walk on the Moon. Prominent in the foreground is their Modular Equipment Transporter, a two-wheeled, rickshaw-like device used to carry tools and samples. Near the horizon at top center is a 1.5 meter wide boulder dubbed Turtle rock. In the shallow crater below Turtle rock is the long white handle of a sampling instrument, thrown there javelin-style by Mitchell. Mitchell's fellow moonwalker and first American in space, Alan Shepard, also used a makeshift six iron to hit two golf balls. One of Shepard's golf balls is just visible as a white spot below Mitchell's javelin.
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    Tomorrow's picture: cone in the unicorn​
     
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